Act Like You're Having a Good Time

Essays

Michele Weldon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

176 Seiten

2020
Northwestern University Press (Verlag)
9780810142947 (ISBN)

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In this honest and tender collection of essays, award-winning memoirist Michele Weldon asks what it means to be a mature woman seeking a life of purpose and meaning through work, family, and relationships. Facing ageism and invisibility within popular culture, Weldon examines the effects of raising children, striving for applause, failing expectations, forming new friendships, reconciling lost dreams, and restoring one's faith. With sincerity and humor, she unwraps family traditions, painting classes, lap swimming, and dress codes. She contemplates privilege and career disappointments. And she asks crucial questions of mortality, finding connection in writing and stories.

Frank, eloquent, and daring, Weldon dissects the intricacies of life, journeying toward self-discovery as a mother, daughter, sister, and friend. Readers of any age or gender will recognize the universal experience of learning to accept oneself and asking essential questions—even if there are no easy answers.

Michele Weldon is the author of several books of nonfiction, including Escape Points, I Closed My Eyes: Revelations of a Battered Woman, and Writing to Save Your Life: How to Honor Your Story. She is an award-winning journalist who has written extensively for outlets such as the Guardian, the New York Times, the Washington Post, USA Today, TIME, Slate, the Chicago Tribune, and others. She is emerita faculty in journalism at Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.

Preface
Part One: Life
1. Roots
2. Electric Frying Pan
3. LaLa's Wedding
4. Dress Code
5. Unseen
6. Negative Space
Part Two: Work
7. Applause
8. On Purpose
9. Connect
10. Swap
11. Work To Do
Part Three: Meaning
12. Dream
13. Full of Yourself
14. Privilege
15. Lap Lanes
16. Hope
Acknowledgements
Notes

Erscheinungsdatum	02.10.2020
Verlagsort	Evanston
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 216 mm
Gewicht	192 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
ISBN-13	9780810142947 / 9780810142947
Zustand	Neuware